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BISE Week: Rebecca Teasdale on methods for evaluating public library STEM programs

Hello! I am Rebecca Teasdale, a doctoral student in Educational Psychology specializing in evaluation methodology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I’m also a librarian and have served as an administrator and science librarian in public libraries. My current work focuses on the evaluation of interest-driven learning related to science, technology, engineering and math …

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BISE Week: Amy Grack Nelson on Introducing the Building Informal Science Education Project

Hi! I’m Amy Grack Nelson, Evaluation & Research Manager at the Science Museum of Minnesota. I’m part of a really cool National Science Foundation-funded project called Building Informal Science Education, or as we like to refer to it – BISE. The BISE project is a collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh, the Science Museum of …

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STEM TIG Week: Courtney Blackwell, Heather King, and Jeanne Century on Bringing Coherency to Evaluating Computer Science Education

Leave a Comment / STEM Education and Training / October 30, 2015 October 25, 2015

We are Courtney Blackwell, Heather King, and Jeanne Century from Outlier Research & Evaluation at the University of Chicago. For the last 3.5 years, we have been researching and evaluating computer science education efforts. Computer Science (CS) is becoming a buzzword in education, with educators, policymakers, and industry developers promoting CS as key to developing …

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STEM TIG Week: Jill Denner on Evaluating CS Education: Why and For Whom?

Leave a Comment / STEM Education and Training / October 29, 2015 October 25, 2015

My name is Jill Denner from Education, Training, Research (ETR), a non-profit organization that does research, evaluation, program development, and professional development. We partner with schools and colleges to increase the interest and capacity of girls and Latino/a students to pursue computer science. Computer Science Education in K-12 is a relatively new space. It is …

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STEM TIG Week: Daisy Rutstein, Eric Snow and Marie Bienkowski on Aligning Assessment Purpose and Use in Measuring Students’ Computational Thinking Practices

Leave a Comment / STEM Education and Training / October 28, 2015 October 25, 2015

Hello, we are Eric Snow, Marie Bienkowski and Daisy Rutstein, from the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI Education. In our work in computer science education research and evaluation we are routinely asked to help clients implement assessments that support valid inferences about students’ computational thinking-oriented learning outcomes. We have learned many lessons from …

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STEM TIG Week: Wendy DuBow on Sharing Survey Instruments: We’ll Go First!

1 Comment / STEM Education and Training / October 27, 2015 October 25, 2015

Hi, I’m Wendy DuBow, a senior research scientist and director of evaluation at the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT). Our mission is to increase the meaningful participation of women in technology fields. We focus on sharing theory- and evidence-based practices with stakeholders in education and industry to support them as they recruit, …

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STEM TIG Week: Taylor Martin on Evaluating Learning and Engagement in Active Learning Environments

2 Comments / STEM Education and Training / October 26, 2015 October 25, 2015

Hi! My name is Taylor Martin and I’m a Professor in Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences at Utah State University. I also run the Active Learning Lab (activelearninglab.org) where I work with a great bunch of colleagues and students researching and evaluating active and fun learning experiences for kids of all ages around programming, computational …

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STEM TIG Week: Jason Ravitz on Embedding Evaluation in Design of CS Education Programs

Leave a Comment / STEM Education and Training / October 25, 2015 October 25, 2015

Welcome to STEM TIG week! My name is Jason Ravitz and I conduct research and manage evaluations of educational outreach projects at Google. This week our blogs focus on Computer Science (CS) education which may officially be counted as a STEM field by act of Congress. The CS First project is one curriculum that is …

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Anna Douglas on Engineering Education Assessment Instruments

Leave a Comment / STEM Education and Training / January 14, 2015 January 12, 2015

I am Anna Douglas and I conduct evaluation and assessment research with Purdue University’s Institute for Precollege Engineering Research; also known as INSPIRE. This post is about finding and selecting assessments to use in evaluation of engineering education programs. Recent years have seen an increase in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education initiatives and …

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Kirk Knestis on Innovation Research and Development (R&D) vs. Program Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, STEM Education and Training / August 15, 2014 August 14, 2014

Kirk Knestis, here, CEO of Hezel Associates—a research and evaluation firm specializing in education innovations. Like many of you, I’ve participated in “evaluation versus research” conversations. That distinction is certainly interesting, but our work in studying science, technology, engineering, and math education (STEM) leaves me more intrigued with what I call the “NSF Conundrum”—confusion among …

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